Well, sure, in a pathetic-idiots-dressing-up-like-Halloween flavor, yes. In terms of being an actual political party with real influence over people's lives?
The same could be said about the actual Nazi party cica 1920. It is important to pay attention to the people who you think have no hope in hell in influencing anything.
While this is an incidental comparison rather than a purposeful one, who many people predicted that a nonsensical spraytan accident with bad hair implants would become president of America? Most of the country laughed at him too considering him as a pathetic idiot with no chance of actually influencing anyone's life, right until November 9th.
but I don't know why anyone would want to be an early adopter until there were resolved
Maybe it's because they are dealing with a company that stands behind their products, repairs and upgrades them, and resolves issues if they are discovered, and are not dealing with a car manufacturer.
Yes you're right about the definition of monopoly, but the the parent is right about the impact. Anti-trust laws go beyond monopoly status and are very much related to market power, not just market share.
This is a genuine question here, but who actually widely uses SMS? The last few countries I've lived in, (and current country as well) have almost practically standardised on some form of 3rd party messaging systems. WeChat, WhatsApp, hell I used to send more Facebook Messages than I did text messages.
In my current country complete strangers will WhatsApp you in a reply to online adverts for example. It is just a given that no one uses SMS, and when I check my message history for SMS I see 4 senders: - Vodaphone telling me I either crossed a national border or have an unheard voicemail. - My bank sending me a confirmation notice that money has moved. - The government sending me a 2FA token - An airline sending me a link to the bording pass.
Okay I lied it's actually 7 senders, there's 4 airlines in the list.
Is SMS still a thing in the USA? I thought it costs money to send SMS over there. Here it's free and people still don't use it.
When we could send messages cross platform BY DEFAULT, and no one considered this a "feature".
In 1975? Just how many people were you emailing (something that didn't become standard until the mid 90s), and how many people were you SMSing (something that didn't become standard in until the 80s)?
Having only one platform (writing a letter) does not a cross-platform make.
How does this compare with the ETSI standard for Advanced Mobile Location which Android has supported since 2015 and has started mass rollout in Europe?
Is Apple going their own way here with yet another incompatible thing, only this time not at the expense of consumer convenience but rather at the expense of actual lives? The article is really shy on details.
Shit! We better get right on ripping RS-485 out of oil refineries, chemical plants, and other hazardous industries around the world then!
Facetousness asside, if we can happily run RS-485 at speed with many multi-drop components along several hundred meters running under HV power lines, I think our Internet of Shit devices will be just fine.
You're not from Holland are you? Every bridge here opens for water traffic. The highway grinds to a halt when that happens. The tunnel predates the new bridge, but it was all part of a large project to massively expand the Port of Rotterdam, on a shitton of reclaimed land.
The reality is, that many people didn't actually need to go there in the past, because there was just water:-)
Most users don't know a thing about the workings of their computer.
This sentence proves --:
If you are worried about encryption, as others said above, your system drive will be encrypted, and then you won't have to worry about this.
:-- this sentence is useless garbage.
Speaking of system drive, do you audit every computer you plug your device into? Most of us use external drives to move data around *between* computers. And sticking with the theme of most users don't know a thing about the workings of their computer, on a scale of drooling-stupor to "WTF man I'm calling the police" do you expect the expression on the other person's face to be when you start quizzing them on how well they have encrypted their computer?
This is what focus groups and play testing are for.
Indeed. It's a great way of finding out what focus groups are good at. Interestingly have you ever seen a focus group, or a beta tester? The kind of people who participate in these events hugely skews the results which is one of the reason why the industry is trying towards telemetry.
Laziness is really the point here isn't it? You're too lazy to install a stats package and parse your own access logs.
Not quite. One man's lazy is another man's more cost effective service. It just goes with the whole general global theme of outsourcing or building on the work of others. The problem is those "others" who provide you a service have it in their best interest for their service to be as flexible as humanly possible with no regard to your scope. You want the logs? We'll get you the logs. Incidentally we'll also get you the kitchen sink, and details of how often your users actually do the dishes in their sinks? Didn't want it? Well we got that info anyway.
A lot of it also has to do with economics. I was at the time doing quick work paid by the hour. Copying and pasting a paragraph of Javascript ultimately was far more effective for the client than paying to screw around with stats packages and setting up specific targeted telemetry. The client's users be damned.
They did get the basics right, they dug a tunnel under the Botlek. Seriously who cares if the bridge doesn't work anymore.
Though my record is taking 3h to get home one day because both the bridge and the tunnel were closed..... Well technically the bridge was "open" as confusing as that language is.
The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup.
Let's re-write these sentences another way:
The goal decided the match -- a match Germany was statistically expected to lose. The loss meant Germany didn't join the ranks of defending champions to win their opening matches, a feat which has only happened once in the past 16 years in the World Cup.
Telemetry: I think as developer I need to gather this metric to make sure I didn't make this level to difficult and deter users in the future.
3rd party Analytics SDK: You want to know about your users? We can tell you about your users. We collect all the things and serve it up to you. Want to know what they named their first born? We got that! Want to know if users passed that difficult level? We got that too!
I remember installing Google analytics a few years ago to find out some information about a new page we added to a customer's website. We had our suspicions that the customers weren't seeing it. I was not at all interested in the intricate details of every browser, screen resolution, operating system, how long they stayed, and what they clicked it. It was all given to me anyway.
The problem is that each and every time an application sends data from your system it's punching a hole out of your firewall to the wider net
If your "firewall" lets applications punch holes out then you don't have a firewall.
If your outgoing random ports pose a security threat then you also don't have a clue about network security. Normally I wouldn't say anything but in this case I just had to open up port 25671 in order to send this text to Slashdot to educate you.
While we run around closing down nuclear power plants and replacing them with solar the environment gets no benefit at all. I recently read the statistical review on world energy that BP has been publishing for the best part of 50 years now, interestingly they dedicated a graph to the power fuel mix (probably political to get governments of the oil industry's back about CO2, but probably also correct).
In the past 20 years we have gotten nowhere. ~38% of power was generated from coal in 1998, about 38% is generated from coal right now. We can thank India and China, but we can also thank the anti-nuclear west which are falling over themselves to close down nuclear power and put more green energy online, bonus points if you're germany and use coal as a semi-temporary stopgap in the process.
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Well, sure, in a pathetic-idiots-dressing-up-like-Halloween flavor, yes. In terms of being an actual political party with real influence over people's lives?
The same could be said about the actual Nazi party cica 1920. It is important to pay attention to the people who you think have no hope in hell in influencing anything.
While this is an incidental comparison rather than a purposeful one, who many people predicted that a nonsensical spraytan accident with bad hair implants would become president of America? Most of the country laughed at him too considering him as a pathetic idiot with no chance of actually influencing anyone's life, right until November 9th.
but I don't know why anyone would want to be an early adopter until there were resolved
Maybe it's because they are dealing with a company that stands behind their products, repairs and upgrades them, and resolves issues if they are discovered, and are not dealing with a car manufacturer.
Yes you're right about the definition of monopoly, but the the parent is right about the impact. Anti-trust laws go beyond monopoly status and are very much related to market power, not just market share.
This is a genuine question here, but who actually widely uses SMS? The last few countries I've lived in, (and current country as well) have almost practically standardised on some form of 3rd party messaging systems. WeChat, WhatsApp, hell I used to send more Facebook Messages than I did text messages.
In my current country complete strangers will WhatsApp you in a reply to online adverts for example. It is just a given that no one uses SMS, and when I check my message history for SMS I see 4 senders:
- Vodaphone telling me I either crossed a national border or have an unheard voicemail.
- My bank sending me a confirmation notice that money has moved.
- The government sending me a 2FA token
- An airline sending me a link to the bording pass.
Okay I lied it's actually 7 senders, there's 4 airlines in the list.
Is SMS still a thing in the USA? I thought it costs money to send SMS over there. Here it's free and people still don't use it.
When we could send messages cross platform BY DEFAULT, and no one considered this a "feature".
In 1975? Just how many people were you emailing (something that didn't become standard until the mid 90s), and how many people were you SMSing (something that didn't become standard in until the 80s)?
Having only one platform (writing a letter) does not a cross-platform make.
Google wouldn't use this to scan all your texts with non-consenting people........... would they?
How is this relevant? Either they are already doing it on the phone or they won't do it on the PC. There is absolutely no privacy change here.
How does this compare with the ETSI standard for Advanced Mobile Location which Android has supported since 2015 and has started mass rollout in Europe?
Is Apple going their own way here with yet another incompatible thing, only this time not at the expense of consumer convenience but rather at the expense of actual lives? The article is really shy on details.
because CAN is way more safe
Shit! We better get right on ripping RS-485 out of oil refineries, chemical plants, and other hazardous industries around the world then!
Facetousness asside, if we can happily run RS-485 at speed with many multi-drop components along several hundred meters running under HV power lines, I think our Internet of Shit devices will be just fine.
Complained about the old bridge :-)
You're not from Holland are you? Every bridge here opens for water traffic. The highway grinds to a halt when that happens. The tunnel predates the new bridge, but it was all part of a large project to massively expand the Port of Rotterdam, on a shitton of reclaimed land.
The reality is, that many people didn't actually need to go there in the past, because there was just water :-)
And a quick check on my CLI shows that TEMPDIR is very much part of my encrypted root volume.
You have an encrypted root volume? Cool!
Most users don't know a thing about the workings of their computer.
This sentence proves --:
If you are worried about encryption, as others said above, your system drive will be encrypted, and then you won't have to worry about this.
:-- this sentence is useless garbage.
Speaking of system drive, do you audit every computer you plug your device into? Most of us use external drives to move data around *between* computers. And sticking with the theme of most users don't know a thing about the workings of their computer, on a scale of drooling-stupor to "WTF man I'm calling the police" do you expect the expression on the other person's face to be when you start quizzing them on how well they have encrypted their computer?
This is what focus groups and play testing are for.
Indeed. It's a great way of finding out what focus groups are good at. Interestingly have you ever seen a focus group, or a beta tester? The kind of people who participate in these events hugely skews the results which is one of the reason why the industry is trying towards telemetry.
Laziness is really the point here isn't it? You're too lazy to install a stats package and parse your own access logs.
Not quite. One man's lazy is another man's more cost effective service. It just goes with the whole general global theme of outsourcing or building on the work of others. The problem is those "others" who provide you a service have it in their best interest for their service to be as flexible as humanly possible with no regard to your scope. You want the logs? We'll get you the logs. Incidentally we'll also get you the kitchen sink, and details of how often your users actually do the dishes in their sinks? Didn't want it? Well we got that info anyway.
A lot of it also has to do with economics. I was at the time doing quick work paid by the hour. Copying and pasting a paragraph of Javascript ultimately was far more effective for the client than paying to screw around with stats packages and setting up specific targeted telemetry. The client's users be damned.
Please do, it'll be more productive than the nonsense you think you were adding to this discussion.
They did get the basics right, they dug a tunnel under the Botlek. Seriously who cares if the bridge doesn't work anymore.
Though my record is taking 3h to get home one day because both the bridge and the tunnel were closed. .... Well technically the bridge was "open" as confusing as that language is.
Sigh even a people as liberal as the Dutch have a retard belt (commonly referred to as a bible belt in politer company).
Stop being a retard. We're talking exclusively about outbound connections here.
What absolute nonsense, the default state of just about every consumer router is to block all unsolicited incoming communications
You could have saved a lot of typing if you only realised no one is talking about incoming connections.
I don't see much of a place for next gen consoles coming out if they aren't going to be capable of ray tracing.
I know. Personally I am not going to buy a faster car until we have achieved faster than light space travel.
The goal decided the match -- a match Germany didn't expect to lose. The loss meant Germany became the third defending champion in the last 16 years to lose its opening match at the World Cup.
Let's re-write these sentences another way:
The goal decided the match -- a match Germany was statistically expected to lose.
The loss meant Germany didn't join the ranks of defending champions to win their opening matches, a feat which has only happened once in the past 16 years in the World Cup.
Telemetry: I think as developer I need to gather this metric to make sure I didn't make this level to difficult and deter users in the future.
3rd party Analytics SDK: You want to know about your users? We can tell you about your users. We collect all the things and serve it up to you. Want to know what they named their first born? We got that! Want to know if users passed that difficult level? We got that too!
I remember installing Google analytics a few years ago to find out some information about a new page we added to a customer's website. We had our suspicions that the customers weren't seeing it. I was not at all interested in the intricate details of every browser, screen resolution, operating system, how long they stayed, and what they clicked it. It was all given to me anyway.
The problem is that each and every time an application sends data from your system it's punching a hole out of your firewall to the wider net
If your "firewall" lets applications punch holes out then you don't have a firewall.
If your outgoing random ports pose a security threat then you also don't have a clue about network security. Normally I wouldn't say anything but in this case I just had to open up port 25671 in order to send this text to Slashdot to educate you.
represents an unacceptable risk to end users for no benefit to them.
Ladies and gentlemen I present the person who complains that companies no longer listen to users.
It's customer-hostile.
Get a grip.
CNN trying to provoke a war to defeat peace so they can get a dig in at the president.
Occam's razor: No need to provoke a war to get a dig at the president, he offers himself up to that voluntarily daily.
The original usage was to describe something that was cut up roughly without care. Applying it to crafting something is a derivative of that.
While we run around closing down nuclear power plants and replacing them with solar the environment gets no benefit at all. I recently read the statistical review on world energy that BP has been publishing for the best part of 50 years now, interestingly they dedicated a graph to the power fuel mix (probably political to get governments of the oil industry's back about CO2, but probably also correct).
In the past 20 years we have gotten nowhere. ~38% of power was generated from coal in 1998, about 38% is generated from coal right now. We can thank India and China, but we can also thank the anti-nuclear west which are falling over themselves to close down nuclear power and put more green energy online, bonus points if you're germany and use coal as a semi-temporary stopgap in the process.
https://www.bp.com/content/dam... Sad summary on page 6.